I refuse to install Chrome, but do install the pure open-source Chromium. I routinely get that behavior with Chrom[e|ium], which leaves files with a crx extension littered throughout my Downloads directory.
But to be fair from both our ends, neither is that useful individual anecdote(s) != empiricism.
Yeah, I have been toying with how to write a server to automated test cases to repro these bugs. Almost all issues I have with browsers is how they behave on slow connections. On the very fast and reliable connections we have in the states, many of the issues are not present.
But to be fair from both our ends, neither is that useful individual anecdote(s) != empiricism.